Respected Members and Respected Members/Tapers are those members who make or have made many contributions and have shown themselves to be leaders in the MetPage community. They contribute to discussions positively and constructively, they go out of their way to be helpful to others, have a good number of posts (but not by post whoring) or otherwise add to the quality of the community. Respected Members have access to more areas in the forum; Respected Members/Tapers also have access to the Tapers' Forums. Respected Members are often asked to give opinions on ideas proposed by the staff, beta test upgrades or new features to the site, and are asked to propose ideas that they think will make the site/forums better.
MetPage Members are promoted into the Respected Member's group through a nomination/voting process. Members can be nominated for promotion one of two ways:
1. Nomination by a Respected Member: If a Respected Member believes a Member has made valuable contributions to the MetPage Community and meets the definition of a Respected Member, then (s)he will nominate the Member for promotion and create a poll.
2. Nomination by anyone in the Members group: If a Member thinks that another Member meets the definition of a Respected Member and should be promoted, that member can send a PM to one of the GMods. The PM should include the nominee's name and a brief description of why that member should be nominated. Once received and the Member's status verified, the Gmod will then nominate the Member for promotion and create a poll.
Nominees are then voted on by the current Respected Members and the Staff. If the nominee obtains a majority of yes votes and positive comments the Member is promoted to the Respected Members group.
Once a Member becomes a Respected Member, they maintain their Respected Member status for life unless they ask to be put back into the Members group or they engage in actions unbecoming a Respected Member. Thus, there are some Respected Members who are no longer active members or regularly participate in the forums. However, their contributions have made MetPage what it is today and their Respected Member status is maintained despite where life may take them away from our online community.
Included in the Respected Members and Respected Members/Tapers groups the following sub categories:
VIP RMs
There are some "legends" in the Metallica community who, upon joining MetPage, were promoted by the MetPage staff into the Respected Member's group because of their contributions to the Metallica community as a whole.
- Dave –VIP Status: Blackened Founder - No longer has an account on MetPage.
- Yeagster – VIP status: "Metallica Legend"
- desert_rat - VIP Status: "Metallica Legend"
- sneaky_metallifux - VIP status: "Metallica Legend"
- SpiderDan13- VIP status: "Metallica Legend" also Former MetPage Staff
Respected Members who have passed but were once a cherished part of the MetPage community.
- Rastuken: In His Memory - No longer has an account on MetPage.
- JusticeIsDone: In His Memory
MetPage staff (most of whom were promoted to staff after having previously been a Respected Member), upon retirement from the staff are moved into the RM-Retired Staff Group. These members will always be honored for their contributions to the building and running of MetPage. They each have contributed greatly and have made MetPage what it is today
- Poolzer - Former Metpage Administrator - If you dont know him you dont know Metpage!
- XerXes - Former MetPage Administrator, who unfortunately has had his account deleted, but we welcome him here to the RM lounge should he rejoin MetPage. He is an amazing coder we kept locked up in the "basement".
- frantik2k3 - Former MetPage Administrator, website developer who helped create and develop Metpage V6
- Kathilib the Prophet aka Spawn of Cthulhu - MetCoverArt Administrator and Cover Artist, Former MetPage Staff, Graphic Artist - he developed our MetPage V6 Skins.
- slayerdiabolus – Former MetPage Staff
- Bob Garage – Former MetPage Staff
- SpiderDan13 – Former MetPage Staff/"Metallica Ledgend" - VIP RM
- starcrossed49 – Former MetPage Staff
- serre - Former Metpage staff
- Truth Teller – Former MetPage Staff
- Disposable Hero – Former MetPage Staff
- Roamer – Former MetPage Staff/FTP Operator/MetCoverArt Artist
- jimmer – Former MetPage Staff/FTP Operators
- snow – Former MetPage Staff/FTP Operator
- King Nothing – Former MetPage Staff/FTP Operator, long time active member of MetPage
- M3TALL1CA2000 – Former MetPage Staff/FTP Operator
- Phantom Lord - Former MetPage Staff/ FTP Operator
- minus clover - Former Blackened Staff, long time active member of MetPage
